As mentioned in yesterday’s Windows Phone 8 launch event, Microsoft publicly released the WP8 SDK for developers. You can now build apps targeting Windows Phone 8 devices. You will be also able to program for Windows Phone 7 devices in Visual Studio 2012 now.

In this post, I am sharing the downloadable links of both web and offline ISO versions. Go through the System Requirements first before downloading and installing it.

System Requirements

Before going to the next steps to download the Windows Phone 8 SDK, you should check out the below System Requirements first:

When you try to run a Windows Phone 8 project in Windows Phone 8 Emulator and if your system is not enabled for Hyper-V, you will be automatically prompted by the system to enable the Hyper-V. Enabling it will restart your system.

You can chose any one of the above installer from the above list to install the Windows Phone 8 SDK. Note that, if your system doesn’t support Windows Phone 8 Emulator, you can still develop WP8 applications.

Has second link of ISO file worked for anyone? It gives me really weared error message, each time I try to install. I could see Windows Phone 8 SDK in Add/Remove programs in control panel. But installation gets failed. Is there an alternative for online SDK installation?

Just to be sure.. I install it to the default x86 even on windows 8 pro x64

I heard somewhere that if I install stuff to the x86 folder it wont utilize the x64 is this just not true and could install anything to the x86 like say assassins creed 3 and still get the maximum out of it? thanks for the quick respose btw I just built this pc and bought win8 pro and vis studio 2012 pro and am trying to correct the whole invalid pointer error I had with phone 8 sdk emulator it worked the first load but now wont load the latest emulator

What kind of S4!t is this? Microsoft will never go anywhere with their constant restrictions! I'm really starting to get sick of this. They just don't want to accept that no one wants to update to Windows 8 because it sucks!!!!

You must have to install a 64-bit Windows 8 OS in order to use the WP8 SDK. As you mentioned that you have 64-bit, then purchase the 64-bit OS from here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/buy and yes, that's 1000% Genuine.

Also, make sure that your PC supports Hyper-V and SLAT, else WP8 SDK will not help (WP8 emulator needs that).

hello sir, I installed wp8 sdk in windows 8 64-bit version, but when I am trying to run the emulator, error is encounter saying "The windows Phone Emulator requires Hyper-v. Your pc is missing the following pre-requisites required to run Hyper-v: windows 8 professional(64-bit), so i need to ask that, do i need to upgrade windows 8 to windows 8 pro??

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